A Forum Users discussion of the Photobucket debacle

I am a Remote Volunteer for the IWM WMR, there are quite a number of Photobucket images there, often obscuring names on the memorial. I would delete them all if I was allowed. I think they mostly came through one person who I had a lot of problems with until he stopped contributing there.

Similarly I keep getting EMails that say

Your account has been deactivated.

If you would like to keep your account and any photos you may have uploaded, reactivate your account today before it's too late.
Is it still running, there is a blog on their site but all the posts are from the same two people.

The company was originally acquired by News Corp. (along with Myspace) in 2007, then sold to Seattle mobile startup Ontela in 2010, which it merged with. Once employing 120 people at its height, Photobucket is now an independent company based out of a co-working space in Denver, Colorado with 11 full-time employees.24 Jun 2019

2019

Since the turn of the year, many former Photobucket users have been receiving ever more desperate emails urging them to upgrade their Photobucket account.They started off quite mild, but of late, they have become more urgent and demanding and it’s not helping their cause.This all started back in June 2017 when the world woke up to find that all their third-party hosted images on Photobucket had been replaced with an error message, the dreaded P500 ‘dial of death’.

More HERE

www.aqueous-digital.co.uk/articles/photo...raw-for-many-people/

 

 
 

I wouldn't be surprised if this became one of those examples used in business schools about how not to run a company. Mind you, the only one I came across being used was Columbia Pictures back in the early eighties - a book on the scandal was a must read back then.